Peace is the plumbline by which we are to measure ourselves. Peace is a location internally that only comes from the Prince of Peace who lives inside of you. When everything around you is shaking, there is a Person of Peace living inside of you. Can you hear the invitation to rest in the peace living inside of you, so no matter what happens around you, there is no disturbing your peace?

Peace is a force we cannot deny. It is no wonder we are called to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. The wife of the lamb is a city, the new Jerusalem coming down from heaven, she is a city of peace, in whom the Lord is the light within her. Revelation 21:2-3 says, “I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.” This is not a distant but a current reality for Christ in us is the hope of glory and we are the temple of the Holy Spirit.

Paul in Romans 16 calls Jesus the God of peace who will crush Satan under His feet. The disrupter of peace is not Jesus, it is another who is seeking to invite you into anxiety, fear, chaos, anything but peace. For any other position other than peace causes conflict within you and strife with others around you. Peace is powerful and necessary.

Isaiah 57 says, “Peace, peace, to the far and to the near, says the LORD, and I will heal him. But the wicked are like the tossing sea; for it cannot be quiet, and its waters toss up mire and dirt. There is no peace, says my God, for the wicked.” Friends wickedness loves to cause conflict, but we are to not come outside the boundaries of peace out of curiosity, or for being informed about what waters are being tossed up. Trust in the Lord, He is the prince of peace and He is not shaken nor moved and as we rest in Him neither are we. Shalom, shalom God is not moved. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org